Le négligé [graphic].

Description

Title: Le négligé [graphic].
Alternative Title: Négligée
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [6 March 1786]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published March 6th, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Abstract: "A young woman (negligent of her other duties) reading in an armchair, by a grand fireplace with a bas-relief decoration of a reclining nude; head in profile to right, wearing a mob cap and voluminous skirts; a poker is stuck in the grate of the blazing fire."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1877,0512.620.
"Simplex Mundities"--Lower left corner.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted on leaf 39 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Provenance: From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 34.4 x 25 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1786
Etchings England London 1786
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1786
England > London > 1786
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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